tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post8542584791673375135..comments2024-03-18T21:56:09.613-05:00Comments on Althouse: "Hurry, please! He ripped her face off... He's eating her...."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-82612374479879434932009-02-20T01:13:00.000-06:002009-02-20T01:13:00.000-06:00I owe Tibore a huge apology, because I screwed up....I owe Tibore a huge apology, because I screwed up. Actually, three: First, for reading too quickly initially; second, for responding in comment before re-checking; and third, for taking an embarrassingly, almost inexcusably (in my terms, by my standards) long time to notice what I did. Did wrong.<BR/><BR/>Tibore, I am sorry. I directed to you, specifically, a response that belonged elsewhere (to the comment just after yours). I did not double-check; I did not proof; and I left it just hanging there, for hours.<BR/><BR/>If you were around for all that time, or even checked in during that time and said nothing, well, all I can say is: You are more temperate than I. For which I'm grateful.<BR/><BR/>Again: I am sorry; there's no excuse, especially given your ACTUAL comment just previous to the one I objected.<BR/><BR/>Don't know what else to say.reader_iamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352836883752091339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83703740017292225422009-02-19T22:41:00.000-06:002009-02-19T22:41:00.000-06:00"were," not was--the original end was "her ability..."were," not was--the original end was "her ability to see"--but then I screwed up in editing agreement. <BR/><BR/>Well, there are worse things I could do.reader_iamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352836883752091339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-69944906239705514082009-02-19T22:39:00.000-06:002009-02-19T22:39:00.000-06:00Tibore: Indeed, it would be weird if she woke up a...Tibore: Indeed, it <I>would</I> be weird if she woke up and saw that--given that among the things "Travis" ate alive was her eyes.reader_iamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352836883752091339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81997357748303278862009-02-19T21:04:00.001-06:002009-02-19T21:04:00.001-06:00Wouldn't it be weird if the woman woke up from hav...Wouldn't it be weird if the woman woke up from having face transplant surgery, and saw that the only donor face available came from the chimp? Everybody's got somethin to hide, except for me and my monkey - face.<br /><br />sent from: fav.or.itfav.or.ithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03335937309857915745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81416939460936965252009-02-19T17:19:00.000-06:002009-02-19T17:19:00.000-06:00"Skyler said... Tibore wrote, Too many people are ...<I>"Skyler said... <BR/>Tibore wrote, Too many people are too often not in tune with nature. Hell, I'm not, that's for certain. <BR/><BR/>I don't try to be in tune with nature. I try to ensure nature is in tune with me. That's how mankind has thrived."</I><BR/><BR/><BR/>Maybe that was a bad way of putting it. I sort of meant "attuned", not "living in harmony" or "living less like a human". What I was trying to get across was that people misunderstand nature as well as wild and undomesticated animals. There's this lack of comprehension that many of our human values are simply not applicable to non-humans. A person strangling someone is murder, but a python doing it is simply trying to eat. <BR/><BR/>Anyone recall Ernst Blofeld's <A HREF="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2006/07/my-wild-yard.html#115350130352009313" REL="nofollow">post from 2006</A>? It's a good example of what I mean about someone substituting value judgements that's out of place. <BR/><BR/><I>"I used to work with some crusty old former Marine NCOs. We also had a sweet little 19-year old girl working as a secretary straight out of high school.<BR/><BR/>One day they were eating their lunch outside near a field that had been overrun by rabbits. A few of them took the lettuce off their sandwich and tossed it out on the ground. The cute little fluffy bunnies hopped up, sniffed the lettuce, and started nibbling on it. The secretary thought this was cute.<BR/><BR/>All of the sudden, out of the clear blue sky, a hawk swooped down, seized the bunny in its talons, and flew off. The bunny gave a little screech before becoming bunny sushi back at the hawk's nest.<BR/><BR/>The girl was horrified. "Did you see that? The hawk grabbed that cute rabbit while we were feeding it!"<BR/><BR/>The crusty former Marine NCOs looked at each other. Finally one said "We weren't feeding the rabbits. We were feeding the hawks."<BR/><BR/>So, Ann, perhaps if you could put some lettuce out in the open and let nature take its course. Hawks have to eat, too."<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>The "crusty Marine NCO's" had a better grip on nature than the "sweet little 19-year old girl" did. And that exemplifies what I meant by being "in tune with nature".Tiborehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07360541843865827271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-35906514972511275022009-02-18T22:36:00.000-06:002009-02-18T22:36:00.000-06:00This is the sort of thing that makes me hate envir...This is the sort of thing that makes me hate environmental groups who raise money with posters and calendars of wild animals, portraying them as noble and peaceful and victims of humanity.<BR/><BR/>I remember reading a statement by some fool who said, "I wouldn't want to live in a world with no grizzly bears." <BR/><BR/>There was a reason why fairy tales included the Big Bad Wolf so often.<BR/> <BR/>When you go to hunt a polar bear, you fly around until you spot one, then land and wait for him to come after you. <BR/><BR/>Here are a few rules: <BR/>Don't have a pet who can pull your arm off and beat you with it. <BR/><BR/>Don't believe the cartoons about Wile E. Coyote. The real ones will kill pets and children. So do mountain lions.ASThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14591247136037620408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-46488699318020237962009-02-18T22:00:00.000-06:002009-02-18T22:00:00.000-06:00You da best, Palladian.Debatable. :)<I>You da best, Palladian.</I><BR/><BR/>Debatable. :)Freeman Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16202310075717963694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-41227239151156357882009-02-18T21:54:00.000-06:002009-02-18T21:54:00.000-06:00Oh no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty kill...Oh no, it wasn't the airplanes. <BR/>It was beauty killed the beast.<BR/> --Carl Denham, 1933comatushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07251715653788254562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-65254744035100439732009-02-18T21:26:00.000-06:002009-02-18T21:26:00.000-06:00You da best, Palladian.You da best, Palladian.Big Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15831645119853118904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11052988093772555212009-02-18T20:58:00.000-06:002009-02-18T20:58:00.000-06:00"What's it with Obama and the Chimp? First it was ..."What's it with Obama and the Chimp? First it was the New York Post cartoon this morning and now it's this comment?<BR/><BR/>This is about a chimp. Leave the President out of it."<BR/><BR/>Yes! <A HREF="http://www.google.com/search?q=bush+chimp&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a" REL="nofollow">It's unseemly to compare the President of the United States to a chimp</A>! It's un-American!Palladianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01105490715666718993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78224313216488658982009-02-18T20:19:00.000-06:002009-02-18T20:19:00.000-06:00What's it with Obama and the Chimp? First it was t...What's it with Obama and the Chimp? First it was the New York Post cartoon this morning and now it's this comment?<BR/><BR/>This is about a chimp. Leave the President out of it.Eli Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00792743206074537073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83536607632991052702009-02-18T19:48:00.000-06:002009-02-18T19:48:00.000-06:00Ohhh.Morgan FAIRCHILD.I thought it was Morgan Free...Ohhh.<BR/><BR/>Morgan FAIRCHILD.<BR/><BR/>I thought it was Morgan Freeman. I always get those two mixed up.<BR/><BR/>{never mind}Jim Carroll, CRNAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00184804441302208917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64781482268608861982009-02-18T19:40:00.001-06:002009-02-18T19:40:00.001-06:00Well, now we know where the term "apeshit" comes f...Well, now we know where the term "<A HREF="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=apeshit" REL="nofollow">apeshit</A>" comes from.Sydneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17038514318463662024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3707924860693961272009-02-18T19:40:00.000-06:002009-02-18T19:40:00.000-06:00Wow, this is the hot thread today, innit?I would o...Wow, this is the hot thread today, innit?<BR/><BR/><I>I would only call your attention to this, while acknowledging that the question is a complex one upon which no scientific consensus apparently exists, due at least in part to our lack of clear definitions of "intelligence."</I><BR/><BR/>Paul, your link includes a "top 10" list that puts <I>squirrels</I> at the top.<BR/><BR/>You think that's going to stop Althouse from eating them? Oh, no, no, no!blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16931973753651111862009-02-18T19:39:00.000-06:002009-02-18T19:39:00.000-06:00But that's not as useful in a fight, since it's ha...<I>But that's not as useful in a fight, since it's hard to rip someone to pieces with your foot. </I><BR/><BR/>Well, it's harder after the first 3-4 pieces, but that's usually sufficient to stop a threat.blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-39030623065345626812009-02-18T19:38:00.000-06:002009-02-18T19:38:00.000-06:00blake, I'm certain that the "dolphins" mentioned i...<I>blake, I'm certain that the "dolphins" mentioned in the old cookbooks you reference are the fish called "mahi-mahi" today.</I><BR/><BR/>Hmmmmm. So what's all this about "Blowhole Parmesean"?<BR/><BR/><I>The mammalian dolphins spend all day long swimming around the ocean, eating, and copulating. They have no police or court system, no kletocracy, work for no bosses, pay no taxes. And you think we're smarter than they are?</I><BR/><BR/>Yes, and you know why? <BR/><BR/>We don't get caught in <I>their</I> tuna nets.blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-56957641485193322342009-02-18T19:36:00.000-06:002009-02-18T19:36:00.000-06:00If he'd been caged or, better yet, among his peers...<I>If he'd been caged or, better yet, among his peers in Africa, it wouldn't have happened.</I><BR/><BR/>Sure it would've. It just would've happened to another chimpanzee. (Probably a baby or small female.)blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430444326700437630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38293507219925589722009-02-18T19:17:00.000-06:002009-02-18T19:17:00.000-06:00doofus: Now, to hijack the thread...Paul Snively, ...doofus: <I>Now, to hijack the thread...Paul Snively, from the 9:00 am-ish comment, are you the same Paul who is the crazed Luther theologian who used to have CleverAcquaintances? If so, I need to call you...</I><BR/><BR/>Uh... it wasn't me. You can't prove a thing! I wasn't even there! It was Karlstadt... no, wait... Melancthon...<BR/><BR/>Oh, what the heck. You found me. :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17074304456221548142009-02-18T19:11:00.000-06:002009-02-18T19:11:00.000-06:00"William said... What's the opposite of xenopho..."William said...<BR/><BR/> What's the opposite of xenophobia?"<BR/><BR/>Xenophilia, of course.<BR/><BR/>If I had an animal who attacked one of my friends or family members, I'd have it put down and I don't think I would feel bad about that at all. I can't see my anger at the animal and remorse for the victim making room for missing companionship or anything else like that.<BR/><BR/>And ditto whoever said one shouldn't keep a pet one couldn't best physically if one had to.<BR/><BR/>I cannot figure out how that woman got to the age she is and did not realize that you can't keep an adult chimpanzee as a pet. I BEEN knowing that. But then, I had Steve Irwin tagged as an idiot long before the stingray did. Nature, red in tooth and claw, you know? The world is not a theme park.Laura(southernxyl)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02880277733341078157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81328397163247696162009-02-18T19:09:00.000-06:002009-02-18T19:09:00.000-06:00Nature's not the boss of us.We can study nature an...<I>Nature's not the boss of us.</I><BR/><BR/>We can study nature and try to work with it and defend ourselves from it, but nature has a way of reminding us that it's boss, in the end. Understanding its ways is the best defense.JohnAnnArborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11440105287714668965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-73926200390838593052009-02-18T19:05:00.000-06:002009-02-18T19:05:00.000-06:00Don't like Morgan Fairchild, do we?Meow.Don't like Morgan Fairchild, do we?<BR/><BR/>Meow.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-82529372272741029552009-02-18T18:46:00.000-06:002009-02-18T18:46:00.000-06:00Any animal or person that attacks me with near or ...Any animal or person that attacks me with near or actual murderous violence will be killed by me if possible. Without a second thought. Their intent or intelligence is irrelevant.<BR/><BR/>You want to hear hard and cold? I'm finding myself thinking the owner is too stupid to live.Jim C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13939831098100385885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64955583945436393642009-02-18T18:32:00.000-06:002009-02-18T18:32:00.000-06:00Our culture is rife with morosophs who are entirel...Our culture is rife with morosophs who are entirely clueless about the natural world. I started at UCONN on my last day of active duty and had to endure endless undergrads mewling about nature and the need to get back to it. Having spent some months in nature, away from such things as power, water, food, heat, toilet paper, the rule of law and polite society, I can tell you, we are better off on this side of the fence.<BR/>The Treadways and Nashs of the world think they can frolic in the autumn mist with wild animals without consequence. Beware such people, they'll get you eaten or at least get your face and fingers gnawed off.El Duderinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12572185127391515950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-77862649907929322692009-02-18T17:12:00.000-06:002009-02-18T17:12:00.000-06:00And they ARE carnivores, after all.Actually, they ...<I>And they ARE carnivores, after all.</I><BR/><BR/>Actually, they are like humans. They are omnivores.Skylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10574746114813075566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-25214232920846409782009-02-18T17:00:00.000-06:002009-02-18T17:00:00.000-06:00Aw, show us the love, Palladian. You da man.Aim th...Aw, show us the love, Palladian. You da man.<BR/><BR/>Aim that amazing menckenly beam at the chimp, the owner, or Morgan Fairchild; the results will be so much more delicious.KCFleminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00124201866124646626noreply@blogger.com